Results tagged “blooddrive”

I used to donate a lot of blood, starting back when I was eighteen. I gave at least a couple of gallons over the years, maybe twice that, before tattoo sessions and piercings and low iron and sex with a guy that had HepC knocked me off the list first temporarily, then for good. Something else I did a lot of was this—I took my kid almost everywhere with me, from the time he was born. Henry couldn’t have been more than four months old on his first long distance road trip. And not much older than that the first time he attended one of my readings. I took him to movies, restaurants, rock shows. I took him to bars, too, mostly (but not always) because I was doing a reading. He was the youngest kid ever let into Emo’s (he was three) and he even had his own special skanky chair at the gone-but-not-forgotten Electric Lounge, where I took him weekly for poetry slams.